University College Hospital

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Etching by Paul Waterhouse of the Cruciform Building on Gower Street
Paul Waterhouse's etching of the Cruciform Building on Gower Street
The Cruciform Building on Gower Street in 2007

University College Hospital (UCH) is a teaching hospital in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, England. The hospital, which was founded as the North London Hospital in 1834, is closely associated with University College London (UCL), whose main campus is situated next door. The hospital is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The hospital is on the south side of Euston Road and its tower faces Euston Square tube station on the east side. Warren Street tube station lies immediately west and the major Euston terminus station is beyond 200 metres east, just beyond Euston Square Gardens.

History

In 1826, the London University began emphasising the importance of having medical schools attached to hospitals. Before the hospital opened, only Oxford and Cambridge universities offered medical degrees, and as a consequence relatively few doctors actually had degrees.<ref>The London Encyclopaedia, Weinreb and Hibbert, 1983</ref> The hospital was founded as the North London Hospital in 1834 in order to provide clinical training for the "medical classes" of the university, after a refusal by the governors of the Middlesex Hospital to allow students access to that hospital's wards.<ref name=chronology>Template:Cite web</ref> It soon became known as University College Hospital.<ref name=chronology/>

In 1835, Robert Liston became the first professor of clinical surgery at UCH,<ref name="Liston@Gazetteer">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal in Gordon, R. (1983), p. 146.</ref> and the first major operation under ether in Europe was conducted at the hospital by Liston on 21 December 1846.<ref name=chronology/> UCH was split from UCL in 1905, and a new hospital building designed by Alfred Waterhouse, known as the Cruciform Building, was opened in 1906 on Gower Street. UCH merged with the National Dental Hospital in 1914, and the Royal Ear Hospital in 1920.<ref name=chronology/>

George Orwell married Sonia Brownell in 1949, and later died 21 January 1950, in room 65 of the hospital.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The hospital was run by the Camden and Islington Area Health Authority<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> from 1974. In 1994, UCH became part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust.<ref name=chronology/> The hospital site at the Cruciform Building was closed in 1995, despite strikes and an occupation in 1993.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The building was purchased by UCL, for use as the home for the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and the teaching facility for UCL bioscience and medical students UCL Medical School.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

A new 75,822 m2 hospital, procured under the Private Finance Initiative in 2000, designed by Llewelyn Davies Yeang<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and built by a joint venture of AMEC and Balfour Beatty at a cost of £422 million, opened in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The sculpture Monolith and Shadow made from a large polished piece of Brazilian granite was placed outside the main entrance to the new hospital in 2005.<ref name=BBC05Aug24>Template:Cite news</ref>

In October 2006, the hospital was nominated and made the Building Design shortlist for the inaugural Carbuncle Cup, awarded to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months",<ref name=bd2010>Template:Cite web</ref> which was ultimately awarded to Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Facilities management services are provided by Interserve.<ref name=interserve/>

In November 2008, the £70 million Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing was opened, allowing the hospital to offer all women's health services in one place (except some breast and gynaecology services).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2024, King Charles III became patron of the hospital, a role Queen Elizabeth II had filled until her death in 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Services

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Template:Col div end The hospital has 665 in-patient beds, 12 operating theatres and houses the largest single critical care unit in the NHS.<ref name=interserve/><ref name=uch>Template:Cite web</ref> The Accident and Emergency department sees approximately 120,000 patients a year.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is a major teaching hospital and a key location for the UCL Medical School.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is also a major centre for medical research and part of both the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Partners academic health science centre.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The urology department moved to University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, formerly the Heart Hospital, in 2015.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>UCLH Web site: Refurbishment of the Heart Hospital, 18 May 2015, retrieved 15 September 2015 Template:Webarchive "The Heart Hospital is being refurbished and will reopen at the beginning of the summer to provide thoracic surgery and urology services ... it will be called University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street."</ref>

Notable staff

See also

References

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Sources

  • Merrington, William, (1976) University College Hospital and its Medical School: a history, Heinemann Template:ISBN

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